Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Mike Bouchard.

I scanned this in last week because I always liked the Sub Zero board graphic. Then when I got the new issue of Thrasher yesterday, I was bummed to see that he had passed away.

This was written by Ricky Oyola on the Traffic website:

"I got news this past week that a good friend of mine has passed away. Mike "Boosh" Bouchard died in his sleep. I don't know what to say really but I know he had friends in the skate community from all over world. He was a ripper to say the least and he definitely stoked me out to go skating. He spent time in Colorado and in Florida but always made it back home here in and around Philly. We had great times blazing the streets of Philly, hitting Love and beyond. A more closer time period is when he lived a few blocks from me in South Philly and we started skating the warehouse. In the beginning of the warehouse days, we would skate with the whole squad getting used to all the different trannies and then him and I would come back during the days while all the hessians were at work and we would try and learn all the lines we saw the previous night. Without his presence and push I would have never learned to skate the warehouse the way I did and some of you might remember a sequence I shot there that I coined "THE BOOSH RIDE". I tried to get that phrase known but still fuckers call it a hippie wall ride. You need someone to help push you and Boosh was my partner in crime for a good stretch. He was always down to help me with my crazy concoctions that at least we called skate spots. He had no fear when it came to grinding shit, realistically I don't think he had fear in general. He was a go for it type guy, there to give you the extra motivation if you needed it. Had Far East, a company out of Florida would have stuck around I am sure more of you would have heard about him. He had some clips in my New Deal 7 Year Glitch part and he had a classic Thrasher cover shot from Love shot by Kelly Ryan. Rest in Peace my friend."

First off RIP. But Ricky, c'mon son... don't taint an otherwise heartfelt eulogy with using the phrase "would of" THREE f'n times. It's "would have"!!! Any grammar conscious beings reading that peice must have cringed a few times. Just sayin'...

First off I want to thank you all for the kind words of my lil brother Mike. We miss him dearly. We are looking for any video's or pictures off him so that we may put together a memorial for him. He loved to skate and loved his skater friends.

If you have anything. pictures, video's etc. please shoot me an e-mail at djandbg@msn.com.

Rest in Peace Michael. You will be missed more then you could ever know. Love you!

I miss my brother Mikey so much!! Got into talking about him tonight with a friend and I burst. Michael will forever be remembered by many and this year in his honor I am having a skateboard tattoo'ed on my foot so we can forever ride together until we meet up again.

I just found out today that Mike died because a mutual friend googled him and found this site, he lived with my family off and on around 94-95ish in florida. I always looked up to him as an older brother and have so many good memories in my heart. We lost touch about 10 years ago and it truly breaks my heart to see that he has passed on... My mom has loads of photos of him and I've called and asked her to send them on to his sis, is that still her email addy?

he was one of the sweetest funniest guys and had a heart of gold. rip brother <3 you... Cassandra

I am sorry I haven't gotten back to anyone. If you e-mail anything to me recently or since the month of February, I would not have seen it. My home was destroyed in a fire on 02/25. My e-mail is djandbg@msn.com, if you send something label is Mike Bouchard. Please. This way it wont be passed by as spam. We are missing him a whole lot and I would love to create a collage or something of him. He is so deeply missed. His smile, his laugh, him just being here.